Current Mood : Still miffed.
Today is Dearest Son's last day of school. Normally, I'd go volunteer, since it's Kids Fun Day, but the PTA kinda horked me off with their latest. Get this - they wanted me to buy some treats, drop them off at the school as a donation ... and they'd sell the stuff at the Kids Fun Day concession stands ! What ? I'm to buy it, donate it, then give my kid money to buy it again ? And on the last day of school ? Bull !
I bought a nice set of treats yesterday and gave them directly to Dearest's teacher, telling her they were for the last day of school as a special surprise. Ridiculous. There's at least three fundraisers a month at that school, and to this day, I have no idea where one penny of all that money goes to. No new playground equipment has surfaced, and the books in the library that he comes home with are still rather battered. I just can't force m'self to ask Creepy Guy, who's the PTA prez, since just being in the same room with him causes every alarm I have to start shrieking. I'm still trying to figure out why he and his ‘genius' third-grader were at that miserable excuse for a second-grade field trip last week.
Which, by the way, we paid $20. for - $7. for Dearest, $3. for me, and $10. towards the fund for kids who couldn't pay. So I really don't wanna hear any more begs - especially on the blasted last day of school. I'm tapped.
I'm also befuddled as to the table and chairs at Mal-Wart last week, with the name of a school PTA on posterboard taped to it. They weren't selling anything that I could see, but from the huge jar on the table, they were taking money. Um, that particular school isn't even in this part of town. It's across the tracks, on the ‘high side' - so what're they doing here ? While it was a huge jar, most people were doing the old ‘don't look up' dodge, so the jar wasn't very full. I looked straight at them, and when asked, said where my son went to school, so why were they here ? No answer, and Mom disengaged quickly to hit up someone else. They weren't there when I came out. (sigh) At least I have a few precious weeks to not deal with school fundraisers.
But he had a nice time, and I'm glad. I just couldn't support this one with either my time or our money. I'm gonna go lie down for a while.
